Weekend Roast: N$10 miljoen is baie drome!
The Weekender's Roast
Where is this bossa who earned N$10 'miljoen'? Asking for a friend and actually, asking for the whole country.
Because if someone in Namibia earns that kind of money in one year, they deserve to be family. Distant cousin is fine. Even very distant. We can work with that.
Ten million dollars is not pocket change. It is not “I worked hard” money. It is SuperAweh, Awehyodatal, Aweh Ultra, Aweh YoVoice. It is 1 000 lives. It is buying data that disappears like a thief in the night. It is the voice telling you that your credit is insufficient.
It is a network that has good days and spiritual days – behaving well in town and shy like a new wife in the villages. It is walking around with your phone in the air, as if you’re searching for reception and meaning at the same time.
So yes, when N$10 million is on the table, curiosity is natural. Because that money can do serious things; it can build around 35 low-cost houses. Real houses. Not phases. Not consultations. Houses. That’s 35 families promoted from zinc to walls.
It can pay for almost 200 security guards for a year or for 200 households with food, school shoes and electricity that lasts past supper. It can also fix the signal in areas where people have accepted 'No Service' as business as usual.
Who can link me up with the baas that earned it? He earned it and did not steal it. He earned it. He must be my cousin. If not, the bossa can adopt us, my starving family and me. We have learned not to eat too much. Even sleeping, we take turns. Because in Namibia, money connects families perfectly.
*This is satire. Enjoy your weekend, although the network is still trying to connect.
Because if someone in Namibia earns that kind of money in one year, they deserve to be family. Distant cousin is fine. Even very distant. We can work with that.
Ten million dollars is not pocket change. It is not “I worked hard” money. It is SuperAweh, Awehyodatal, Aweh Ultra, Aweh YoVoice. It is 1 000 lives. It is buying data that disappears like a thief in the night. It is the voice telling you that your credit is insufficient.
It is a network that has good days and spiritual days – behaving well in town and shy like a new wife in the villages. It is walking around with your phone in the air, as if you’re searching for reception and meaning at the same time.
So yes, when N$10 million is on the table, curiosity is natural. Because that money can do serious things; it can build around 35 low-cost houses. Real houses. Not phases. Not consultations. Houses. That’s 35 families promoted from zinc to walls.
It can pay for almost 200 security guards for a year or for 200 households with food, school shoes and electricity that lasts past supper. It can also fix the signal in areas where people have accepted 'No Service' as business as usual.
Who can link me up with the baas that earned it? He earned it and did not steal it. He earned it. He must be my cousin. If not, the bossa can adopt us, my starving family and me. We have learned not to eat too much. Even sleeping, we take turns. Because in Namibia, money connects families perfectly.
*This is satire. Enjoy your weekend, although the network is still trying to connect.
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